German President on Greek Reparations Claim

German President Joachim Gauck has raised the possibility of German WWII reparations to Greece. Greece has never abandoned its reparations claim for the brutal and devastating WWII Nazi occupation, while the German government has repeatedly rejected these claims.

"We are not only people who are living in this day and age but we're also the descendants of those who left behind a trail of destruction in Europe during World War II - in Greece, among other places, where we shamefully knew little about it for so long," Gauck said, adding that to consider possibilities for reparations would be the right thing to do.